Kid Venom #3

Name: Kid Venom #3
Brand: Marvel
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Jan 2025 · Marvel · 3.99 USD

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Kid Venom #3 is the penultimate chapter of the first solo series ever given to Kintaro (Sakata Kintoki), Marvel's first Japanese historical-folklore-rooted symbiote hero, and it marks the first appearances of two characters drawn directly from Heian-era Japanese mythology: the spirit Gedomaru and the legendary onmyōji (court sorcerer) Abe no Seimei. By bringing genuine figures from 10th-century Japanese folklore into the Marvel symbiote cosmos, the issue extends the creative experiment that made this series notable — demonstrating that the Venomverse's multiverse structure could meaningfully absorb non-Western mythological traditions rather than merely re-skin existing Western archetypes. As the third installment of a four-issue limited run, it pivots the arc toward its conclusion by centering on an interdimensional portal, a structural beat that foreshadows Kintaro's eventual crossing into the main Marvel 616 continuity.

writer, artist, inker Taigami · writer Aki Yanagi · artist, inker Hatano · colorist Mattia Iacono · letterer VC's Joe Sabino · cover Taigami

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History

Kid Venom itself grew out of a 2018 manga contest jointly held by Shonen Magazine and Marvel, for which Taigami — a professional manga creator whose prior work included Unsung Hero — submitted a one-shot using a Marvel theme; he chose symbiotes and arrived at the concept of grafting the classic Japanese folkloric figure Kintaro onto the Venom mythos. The character debuted as backup stories in Death of the Venomverse #2–#5 (2023) during Marvel's 'Summer of Symbiotes' initiative, was then collected in the standalone Kid Venom: Origins #1 (January 2024), and finally graduated to his own four-issue series beginning July 2024, with Taigami serving as sole writer, artist, and cover artist throughout — an unusually unified creative vision for a mainstream Marvel title.

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Released November 6, 2024 (cover-dated January 2025); issue #3 of a four-issue limited series (Kid Venom Vol. 1).
First appearance of Gedomaru, a new character within the Kid Venom corner of the Marvel multiverse (Earth-91029).
First appearance of Abe no Seimei in the Kid Venom series — a figure drawn from real Heian-era Japanese history and folklore, here introduced into Marvel's symbiote mythology.
Written, penciled, inked, and covered entirely by Taigami (full name Taigami Hatano), with colors by Mattia Iacono and letters by Joe Sabino.
The issue's central plot engine is an interdimensional portal — Kintaro must return a mysterious child to her home universe — directly setting up the series finale in which he crosses into the Marvel 616.
Variant covers for this issue were provided by Philip Tan (homage variant), Ivan Tao (1:25 incentive variant), and Luciano Vecchio.
The series as a whole originated from Taigami's entry in a 2018 Shonen Magazine/Marvel manga contest, making Kid Venom one of the rare Marvel characters whose creative DNA traces directly to a formal Japan–Marvel publishing collaboration.
Kid Venom: Origins #1 (January 2024) collected the character's four-part debut from Death of the Venomverse #2–#5, meaning issue #3 of this series represents the third chapter of Kintaro's first fully original solo narrative rather than a retelling.